Saturday, July 21, 2012

Food prices are at the mercy of global pressures that we struggle to control

Guardian: The British like cows. We like to see them in fields and regard the dairy industry as much more than merely a part of our food system. Rolling green fields filled with the familiar dots of black-and-white Friesian hide are a key part of our cultural identity. Which explains why, late last week, Twitter came alive with demands from far beyond the farming community for us all to get behind the nation's dairy farmers in their fight for a fair deal. The announcement by the major processors of a 2p per...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/21/jay-rayner-consumers-must-back-farmers
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2012/7/20/1342802312322/dairy-cows-grazing-008.jpg

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